Published March 05, 2026
Supreme Court ruled against gender secrecy. We must make sure schools follow the law!
U.S. Supreme Court issued a historic ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta, effectively ending California’s state policy of gender secrecy. Although the law and national policies are favorable to our side, it is our responsibility to monitor the implementation at the local school district level. Once again, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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CFER
This week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a historic ruling in Mirabelli v. Bonta, effectively ending California’s state policy of gender secrecy. As a result, California school districts can no longer facilitate children’s gender transitions without informing parents. Nor will teachers be forced, against their religious beliefs and moral convictions, to use different names and pronouns behind parents’ backs.
Congratulations to all the parties involved in bringing this victory through our nation’s higher court, including lead counsel Paul Jonna of the Thomas More Society, who helped CFER take down religious chants in the ethnic studies curriculum in 2021!
While we celebrate such a decisive win for parental rights and religious freedom, we can’t ignore another emerging reality: progressive educrats and teacher activists are scheming ways to circumvent and undermine the ban in defiance. As with the previous landmark Supreme Court ruling in SFFA v. Harvard, which bans race-based college admissions, the other side always spins the story and concocts false narratives. This time, opponents of parental rights and traditional family values condemn the ruling as “forced outing” and “anti-LGBTQ+” rhetoric. Individual school districts are being given a signal to carry on the harmful gender ideology as usual.
We can’t let that happen. Although the law and national policies are favorable to our side, it is our responsibility to monitor the implementation at the local school district level. Once again, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Please allow us to make the following suggestions to help you bring the positive changes from the court to your local community:
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Speak up at your next school board meeting and put the school district on notice regarding the ban on gender secrecy.
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Continue to monitor curricula, policies and initiatives in your local school district for evidence of indoctrination and discrimination.
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Connect with fellow parents and citizens to grow and sustain the movement for parental rights, transparency, excellence, merit and truth.
CFER is ready and willing to help you on your journey. Please let us know how we can be of best assistance to you in your specific situations/circumstances.
Contact:
Wenyuan Wu
wenyuan.wu@cferfoundation.org
About Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER):
We are a non-partisan and non-profit organization established following the defeat of Proposition 16 in 2020, with a mission to defend and raise public awareness on the cause of equal rights through public education, civic engagement and community outreach. In 1996, California became the first U.S. state to amend its constitution by passing Proposition 209 to ban racial discrimination and preferences. Prop. 209 requires that “the state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.” CFER is dedicated to educating the public on this important constitutional principle of equal treatment.